The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear Enbridge's bid to change the venue of Michigan's lawsuit seeking to force the Canadian pipeline operator to stop operating a pipeline underneath the Straits of Mackinac,

Enbridge's dispute with the state of Michigan over the Line 5 oil pipeline is headed to the US Supreme Court, which will decide whether the case belongs in federal court or state court.

The Supreme Court is going to take up a technical question as to whether a Line 5 case can be properly brought in federal or state court.